Support Forums: Message List - Joshua Bloch: the Strangest Thing in the Java Platform http://www.theserverside.com Most recent forum messages en Jive Forums Silver 5.5.30 (www.jivesoftware.com) Fri, 24 May 2013 02:39:32 -0400 RE: Private is not really private. http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=51624 Worse than accessing different instances but inner classes can access private members of outer classes and visa-versa....]]> Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:27:43 -0500 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:27:43 -0500 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:27:43 -0500 Nov 12, 2008 James Watson 0 Private is not really private. http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=51624 Sun, 09 Nov 2008 06:46:45 -0500 Sun, 09 Nov 2008 06:46:45 -0500 Sun, 09 Nov 2008 06:46:45 -0500 Nov 9, 2008 Peter Lawrey 1 Re: Arcane syntax http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=51624 The strangest thing to me in Java is still that they modeled the syntax after C and C++....]]> Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:55:24 -0400 Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:55:24 -0400 Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:55:24 -0400 Nov 1, 2008 John Brand 0 Re: Joshua Bloch: the Strangest Thing in the Java Platform http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=51624 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:59:59 -0400 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:59:59 -0400 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:59:59 -0400 Oct 31, 2008 Thomas Bauer 0 Re: Cloneable http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=51624 instance variables. (Yes, I know it's silly, but that's the way it is.)

Cloneable should have been an annotation (which didn't exist back then), together with Serializable (which is even stranger than Cloneable IMHO)....]]> Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:23:22 -0400 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:23:22 -0400 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:23:22 -0400 Oct 31, 2008 Grzesiek Glowaty 0 Re: No interface for Input/Ouput Stream http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=51624 I never got it why java.io.InputStream is an abstract class and not an interface...

It is hard to "marry" things like Remote + InputStream in Java (in RMI sense of those things)

MX...]]> Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:37:27 -0400 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:37:27 -0400 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:37:27 -0400 Oct 31, 2008 Cameron Purdy 0 Re: The advantage of the signed types http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=51624 "The two's-complement system has the advantage of not requiring that the addition and subtraction circuitry examine the signs of the operands to determine whether to add or subtract. This property makes the system both simpler to implement...]]> Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:53:43 -0400 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:53:43 -0400 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:53:43 -0400 Oct 31, 2008 Cameron Purdy 0 Re: Cloneable http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=51624 If you want to clone something, you call clone on it. If you don't want to clone something, you won't call clone. It's just a hoop that you are required to jump through. Cloneable acts like a safety switch. It's only possible purpose is...]]> Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:49:47 -0400 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:49:47 -0400 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:49:47 -0400 Oct 31, 2008 Cameron Purdy 0 Re: the unreliability of gc( ) http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=51624 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:17:03 -0400 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:17:03 -0400 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:17:03 -0400 Oct 31, 2008 Tor-Einar Jarnbjo 0 The advantage of the signed types http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=51624 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two%27s_complement...]]> Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:45:42 -0400 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:45:42 -0400 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:45:42 -0400 Oct 31, 2008 miikka palomaki 1 compare() and equals() contradiction http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=51624 Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:33:17 -0400 Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:33:17 -0400 Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:33:17 -0400 Oct 30, 2008 Alex Ander 0 No interface for Input/Ouput Stream http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=51624 Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:52:16 -0400 Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:52:16 -0400 Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:52:16 -0400 Oct 30, 2008 Manolo X 1 Re: Joshua Bloch: the Strangest Thing in the Java Platform http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=51624 Btw, the signed bytes are could be real pain. Could be? Signed bytes are a real pain. I've never needed to use signed arithmetic with bytes. It's something that I have to work around. It doesn't provide value.]]> Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:41:58 -0400 Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:41:58 -0400 Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:41:58 -0400 Oct 30, 2008 James Watson 0 Re: Cloneable http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=51624
My vote for the Strangest Thing in the Java platform goes to the fact that java.lang.Cloneable does not contain clone() method!


Probably because until recently, you couldn't define...]]> Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:39:05 -0400 Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:39:05 -0400 Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:39:05 -0400 Oct 30, 2008 James Watson 1 Properties and Stack design decisions http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=51624 Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:56:10 -0400 Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:56:10 -0400 Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:56:10 -0400 Oct 30, 2008 Rafael Naufal 0